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Exploring Global Governance Networks 0
- Analysis
- March 7, 2012
How is global governance organized? For many complicated issues, governance is being pursued at multiple sites, by different actors, at different levels and, in many cases, across space in a messy transnational fashion. What, then, are fruitful ways of understanding …
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Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?0
- Analysis
- March 5, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.16, March 2012.
By STEVE COLL, New America Foundation.
- The NATO transition plan for Afghanistan is based on faulty assumptions and must be rethought before time runs out.
- The international community must invest in a successful
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Enrichment or Weapons: Where is the Red Line on Iran?0
- Analysis
- March 5, 2012
For all the expressions of friendship and support between U.S. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the two have different thresholds over what would lead them to attack Iran and different visions of how the issue of Iran’s potential …
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Why the People Wanted Putin 0
- Analysis
- March 5, 2012
The full article was published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 4, 2012.

‘Svobodnykh mest net” (“there are no free places”)! Of all my memories of the months I spent as a student in the Soviet Union, perhaps the most …
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Assessing Iran: The Arab Spring, the Nuclear Issue, and Canada’s Response 0
- Analysis
- March 2, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No.15, March 2012.
By PETER JONES.
- Iran’s internal situation is troubled and getting worse, but it is impossible
  to say how long the regime will last.
- The Arab Spring has left Iran a ‘net loser’ in terms
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Steve Coll’s Sobering Vision of Afghanistan’s Future: Event Report 0
- Analysis
- March 1, 2012
On February 27, Steve Coll (President of the New America Foundation and Pulitzer Prize-winning author) gave a strikingly clear and sobering analysis of problems afflicting the U.S. exit strategy from war in Afghanistan. His opening premise was a moral one: …
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Bad News from Afghanistan 0
- Analysis
- February 27, 2012
These days, statements issued by NATO and U.S. officials tend to portray an optimistic picture of the situation in Afghanistan, suggesting that the insurgency remains on the back foot, that the transition to Afghan lead (the process by which security …
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Is an Israeli Attack Inevitable?0
- Analysis
- February 26, 2012
Published in the Ottawa Citizen, February 26, 2012

To listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his “best friends” Stephen Harper and John Baird, one would think that the Israeli government has made up its mind about attacking …
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Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran and the 2009 Election Scandal 0
- Analysis
- February 25, 2012
CIPS Policy Brief No. 14 (February 2012).
By TRITA PARSI.
- Barack Obama’s presidency began with a diplomatic outreach to Iran.
- However, the space for diplomacy turned out to be limited, due in part to the effects of Iran’s fraudulent 2009
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Senegal: Warnings From a Model Democracy on the Brink 0
- Analysis
- February 24, 2012
Senegal, one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies, hovers on the brink of electoral chaos and political violence. At least six people have already been killed, and protests and demonstrations are continuing on a daily basis despite the violent crack-down of …
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The Cockeyed Case for Preemptive War on Iran 0
- Analysis
- February 24, 2012
I was invited to talk about fragile states at the annual meeting of the Conference of Defence Associations in Ottawa on Thursday. As it turned out, however, I spent most of my time speaking about Iran.

I couldn’t help myself. …
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CIPS Launches Graduate Student Seminar Series in International Theory 0
- Analysis
- February 16, 2012
Like its sister networks sponsored by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), the International Theory Network (ITN) aims to create opportunities for students share to their ideas and develop a research community. To that end, a group of students …
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